Can the Ubuntu packages be used in Debian? If so, why doesn't the Ubuntu maintainer maintain the Debian version too?
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't want to make it sound as a "me too" here — I truly believe > Álvaro and his team are working hard on making Cherokee move on to the > future. However, I have come to the (sad but needed) decision to > request the removal of Cherokee from Debian for the upcoming release. > > As I said several months ago, I have not had time to debug some > problems¹ (minor, moderate and big) that have piled up with my Cherokee > packaging. I also lack the main motivation to do this: I am no longer > using Cherokee for any of my production servers. > > I requested for potential Cherokee adopters back in November², and > although there are two replies to it on the bugtracker (plus a couple > I got by private mail), I have seen no real action backing them. > > Cherokee has not been considered for Debian Testing since November, > due to it having important bugs open. As I have not seen any movement > on it, I think the most honest answer to its users is: Go to the > upstream authors. The maintainer in Debian is not doing his job, and > nobody is stepping up to do it either. It would be a disservice to our > users to fool them into thinking my packaging has the high quality > levels both Cherokee and Debian (although with some disagreements on > the "how") strive to achieve. > > So, the Git repository will still be there, and I'm sure Leonel will > keep maintaining Cherokee for Ubuntu. But the next Debian release will > not have Cherokee anymore, nor it will be distributed from Debian's > official repositories. > > It's been a long, interesting journey. I love this project and wish > Cherokee long life. Hopefully it can be incorporated into Debian (and > its derivatives) later on. But it deserves better than my lack of > attention. > > Greetings and hugs to the whole group! > > ¹ > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=cherokee&repeatmerged=no > > ² http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648256 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPluNQAAoJEGc6A+TB25IfZzkQAJ9H1eTQUrbRdQIN2mqT0RJF > FUnlxD8/Dcg9nNUOpQ+jVvb5TXp6vwOonwTRUG07MqBy3NH75f2Ugt46itMp2UCO > DBbrWYUX+uurT5OJahq+6gKtqaALN3thY4TLOcbrUUNo7eSXWw9CD7THbYr53AZ0 > NQwY3bUfzrNoQurFa3DZTS9lYLqHirGTQdbyLOdaZNH6hBYycGXZ9MGlAStHA5Rx > v74XMgQ1072dGOjVtHTk3j4/dbKMci4PCGp73p88OF5snygziOJUXr+/HVC7XxCD > Qxc8NAlrvglBCy0C3gi7ZvPoRFjNWAetLEpD8e9PIrc9KC3Dgna+XZSeKkFmqjEs > RsxATfFVBvyzqYR5I7BkS4hpRYa+Dqb2rhf5VcNQYrciI9Lvg7HpJx8ENpLzyd5c > O+7Vv3iiJNFhulSnJ70RhR/UAnb7DiY5mlj+FuHXpZoT4lw8vwIASSWmw9ajXItB > D7jJrlDKPZm5FPb2bIEc384PdtWQNlPMdxERhiiDzstJ/aRJ29g+ruC+wB5DYJMN > qB3MUwD2x5/Wj3wpYMefnopHbB8gdjtTxdqFP0t1+WMDJaQDFfFtPkBEAAMH6+8J > e1b2RxNKBmP0sZElbJ8aMCvxm2DyGINmVpYjd+1xUQNWTKCwH2t+jvcZnjESUmhB > mpII7kuM/YgBXxwdVAZ4 > =vzNq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Cherokee mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee > >
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